diaphragm v. paradigm?

there was dinner table discussion of diaphragms and the frequency of their removal, but this is beside the point.

the point is that somehow the anecdote meandered its way to the discussion of paradigms, the primacy of discernment, and the dissection of difference between help and support. the very notion of "help" maintains distance, a certain sense of separation, a subtle implication that the "helper" possesses something ("help") that the "helped" does not.

and this is false;

we are whole
and complete
in and of
ourselves.

the noblest goal is to support
- not help -
one another in our respective paths,
to realize the truth of our own the divinity,
the unspeakable extent of our greatness.